Entre las normas y sus usos

In Argentina, the central decades of the Twentieth Century were a period of deep changes in domestic work, both paid and unpaid, in which the demarcation of work and family was variable and conflictive, and in which domestic service acquired new meanings. The law-ranking decree 326, that regulates d...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:994b55a1db81463db497b661a2978d3d2021-12-02T10:32:20ZEntre las normas y sus usos1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.65167https://doaj.org/article/994b55a1db81463db497b661a2978d3d2013-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/65167https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252In Argentina, the central decades of the Twentieth Century were a period of deep changes in domestic work, both paid and unpaid, in which the demarcation of work and family was variable and conflictive, and in which domestic service acquired new meanings. The law-ranking decree 326, that regulates domestic service since 1956, is, in this sense, an important milestone. Although the protections that it warranted were more limited than the ones recognized for other workers, this decree constituted the first legal regime for domestic workers, changing the notions of justice related to domestic services even beyond what was established within the law. In this article, I reconstruct the legal and discursive strategies, both of domestic employers and employees, through the analysis of 369 dossiers initiated before the Consejo de Trabajo Doméstico between 1956 and 1962. I explore the appropriations of the law, and I show that both the appeal to gender stereotypes, and the changing demarcations of the limits between the intimate, the private and the public spheres, were central elements in the strategies described.Inés PérezCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticledomestic servicewomen’s workdomestic workgenderjusticeAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2013)
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language EN
FR
PT
topic domestic service
women’s work
domestic work
gender
justice
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle domestic service
women’s work
domestic work
gender
justice
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Inés Pérez
Entre las normas y sus usos
description In Argentina, the central decades of the Twentieth Century were a period of deep changes in domestic work, both paid and unpaid, in which the demarcation of work and family was variable and conflictive, and in which domestic service acquired new meanings. The law-ranking decree 326, that regulates domestic service since 1956, is, in this sense, an important milestone. Although the protections that it warranted were more limited than the ones recognized for other workers, this decree constituted the first legal regime for domestic workers, changing the notions of justice related to domestic services even beyond what was established within the law. In this article, I reconstruct the legal and discursive strategies, both of domestic employers and employees, through the analysis of 369 dossiers initiated before the Consejo de Trabajo Doméstico between 1956 and 1962. I explore the appropriations of the law, and I show that both the appeal to gender stereotypes, and the changing demarcations of the limits between the intimate, the private and the public spheres, were central elements in the strategies described.
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publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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